Tag: Theatre

Is Wendy & Peter Pan a fast-moving adventure story or a reflection on age, grief, gender-stereotyping, the meaning of family and of love? In Ella Hickson’s brilliant adaptation of JM Barrie’s book it is...

The ultimate spectacle, with primary colours bursting out of the darkness. Billowing ball gowns whisking you into a magical world. All performed to Prokofiev’s irresistibly melodic score - performed live by the Scottish Ballet...

By Robert Girvan Murder, body-snatching, incest, bestiality, witchcraft, illicit trysts with the Deil himself and a modicum of social commentary – Dark City has it all! Like Edinburgh’s eminent surgeon, voracious cadaver addict and pillar of...

Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard’s Shakespeare in Love is loud, funny and occasionally heartbreaking – but how does it translate from screen to stage? Lee Hall’s adaptation, showing at the King’s Theatre this week,...

Coming to the Out of the Blue Drill Hall on Saturday 10th and and Sunday 11th November is a hard-hitting drama based on true-life refugee experiences.   The Journey is a compelling, fearless, intense and immersive...

Badac Theatre’s The Journey is a compelling, fearless, intense and immersive slice of drama that is true to the experiences of refugees from across the globe fleeing conflict and, sometimes, certain death. It comes to...

The MagicFest Christmas show is back at the Traverse theatre from 27-30 December 2018.This year they present a Christmas collaboration between Scottish magician-scientist hybrid Kevin Quantum and Swedish high-tech wizard Charlie Caper. In ‘The...

The 2018 Edinburgh International Festival ended last evening with the Virgin Money Fireworks Concert. Drawing hundreds of thousands of Festival-goers from more than 80 countries, the three-week International Festival staged some of the world’s...

And not a glass slipper to be seen...Ingenious optical illusions, sumptuous video projections and unstoppable comedy. Renowned Norwegian director Stefan Herheim’s extraordinary production of Rossini’s effervescent Cinderella opera is stuffed full of ideas and comic...

A production worthy of a more comprehensive look

What makes a house into a home?You are cordially invited to a magical house party on the grandest scale. HOME builds an entire house before your very eyes, and then explores how it turns into...

  As resident company at the 2018 International Festival, the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord brings three contrasting yet equally daring works to Edinburgh. Peter Brook is among the most influential figures in international theatre,...

'My crime wasn't doing something. My crime was being something. Being different in a way everyone else could see.'  Born into poverty in an isolated village in rural France, a boy grows up amongst hard...

‘When we drum together it’s like we’re having a conversation through time….it doesn’t make much sense if there’s only one drummer.’Antosh Wojcik’s grandfather has vascular dementia. When Antosh visits him in hospital, he tries...

‘Having a learning disability is no barrier to creating theatre that is thought provoking, enjoyable and accessible to everyone’ (Susan Wallin MBE, Artistic Director, Side by Side Theatre)In William Shakespeare’s As You Like It...

John Gay’s 18th-century opera brought forward into the modern daySwarming with highwaymen, thieves, jailors, pimps and prostitutes, John Gay’s savagely satirical and wildly entertaining ‘ballad opera’ invites you into a world of greed, crime,...

In Livewire Theatre’s Twelfth Night or The Ship of Fools, a shipwreck becomes a plane crash, a countess wields a hammer, and a duke’s palace is a funfair – though it’s not always very...

Spooky fun for all the family....A spellbinding spectacle for children from seven years old and their families, Hocus Pocus weaves together dance, theatre, visual art and bewitching lighting to tell a wondrous story of...

Time traveller drops in to The FringeRemember P.E. kit. Cancel Free Trial. Call Mum. Everyone writes instructions to their future selves. But what happens if the future starts writing back? Featuring a diverse cast of real-life characters...

The Children's Library on George IV Bridge hosted a selection of characters who will be taking part in a variety of adaptations of some of former Children’s Laureate, Michael Morpurgo's, books.Representatives from the casts...

YVUA Arts present their award-winning About Lady White Fox with the Nine Tales, a retelling of Shakespeare’s Macbeth based on the mysterious and exotic White Fox legend of the Orient. In the play, part of...

Entropy: (noun) lack of stability or predictability; gradual decline into disorderSam, 19, with a confidence that borders on arrogance, turns up unannounced and unwelcome at Barbara’s door after an absence of many years. Barbara, 36 and living...

Very funny exploration of the rise and fall of Nick Cassenbaum’s hero, Michael BarrymoreEver since his Nanna Sylvie bought him ‘Barrymore’s Best Bites’ on VHS when he was seven, Nick has loved Michael Barrymore. Now, in...

As a bomb disposal expert doing VIP protection at the Fringe Ken Bellringer never expected to appear there on stage himself.But this year he is among 15 members of Bravo 22 Company, a military arts based...

The battle is on – the villagers of Little Middleton are fighting to preserve their historic community and keep it safe from progress. A Beginner’s Guide to Populism is a darkly comic play following the fortunes...

Ahh, Russia! Home of words! Home of books and plays! Home of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekov, Brezhnev, Gogol!Russian literature is the finest in the world. Gambling devices are also excellent! In this show, we  combine Russian literature with...

'War Horse' launched with a little help from Lewis and KilmarnockThe Festival Theatre marked the opening of the Edinburgh run of the National Theatre’s acclaimed production of War Horse by introducing Joey to riders...

Brand new Musical comedy starts Scottish Tour at Assembly Hall in The Capital  Bingo! presented by Grid Iron Theatre Company and Stellar Quines Theatre Company, is a new musical comedy focusing on lives of six...

The Brunton has launched its January to April season offering a line-up of theatre, music, dance and film.Captivate Theatre bring two musicals, Les Misérables: School Edition and Sweeney Todd and multi-award winning Scottish theatre...

Gilded Balloon is proud to present a brand-new, year-round home for comedy, theatre and cabaret right in the heart of the city’s West End Headlining Gilded Balloon’s inaugural winter programme will be Morag Fullarton’s critically-acclaimed,...